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October 25, 1984

There were few surprises in the consumer price report released yesterday. It echoed the relatively stable price trend of the last three years. Since last September, inflation went up a mild 4.2 percent.

Consumer prices rose a modest 0.4 percent for the month, both giving the 37 million people on social security a 3.5 percent raise and completing the figures needed to set the new tax indexing rate for 1985.